On 07/09/2012 04:14 PM, Alan Bartlett wrote: > On 10 July 2012 00:11, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> On 10 July 2012 00:03, Todd And Margo Chester <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> According to /var/log/yum.log, something is doing back >>> ground updates. >>> >>> This morning the flash-plugin updated after I downgraded >>> it yesterday and I got a libvirt updated that crashed >>> my VMs. I did not ask for these updates. I am afraid to go >>> on the Internet! >>> >>> How do I turn off these background updates? >> >> I'd suggest looking at the output returned by -- >> >> sudo yum list yum-\* > > Just checked for myself. The yum-cron package looks as if it is the > guilty party. > > Name : yum-cron > Arch : noarch > Version : 3.2.29 > Release : 30.el6 > Size : 35 k > Repo : rhel-x86_64-server-optional-6 > Summary : Files needed to run yum updates as a cron job > License : GPLv2+ > Description : These are the files needed to run yum updates as a cron job. > : Install this package if you want auto yum updates > nightly via cron. > > Alan. > Hi Alan, $ yum list yum-\* | grep -i cron yum-cron.noarch # rpm -qa \*yum-cron\* # Not installed. RATS! Yippee! I think I found the little bugger! /etc/sysconfig/yum-autoupdate # ENABLED # true - Run yum-autoupdate # false - Do not run yum-autoupdate (default) # + anything other than true defaults to false ENABLED="true" Ah HA! "ENABLED" is now "false". And I will reboot just to make sure everyone is listening! Thank you! -T -T